Behind-the-Scenes Tours

Thursdays & Fridays at 2pm

The University of Alaska Museum of the North offers behind-the-scenes tours to visitors from June through the end of August. Participants will get exclusive tours of the museum’s labs and work spaces, where collection managers and curators take care of 1.5 million specimens and artifacts.

Explore our Exhibits

Expedition Alaska: DinosaursIn the Special Exhibits Gallery

See authentic Alaska dinosaurs from the museum’s collections. Compare your leg to a dinosaur’s. View fossils and try your hand at excavating. Explore a virtual field camp. Practice paleontology and examine dinosaur teeth under the microscope. Discover with us!

This exhibit features all 50 artwork donated by Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, a librarian and postal worker who amassed one of the most important contemporary art collections in the country. They surprised the art world by donating the entire collection to museums across the country.

A collection of photographs by Alaska artist Ben Huff from his larger series The Last Road North. These photos were taken along the Dalton Highway over the course of five years using a large format camera.